This is a 3 yr old mn Schnauzer mix that has had microscopic hematuria for a month. His culture was negative. They wanted him scanned for stones and evidence of a shunt. He had no stones and no evidnece of a shunt but a pronounced medullary rim sign. I was thinking his hematuria might be renal in orgin.
This is a 3 yr old mn Schnauzer mix that has had microscopic hematuria for a month. His culture was negative. They wanted him scanned for stones and evidence of a shunt. He had no stones and no evidnece of a shunt but a pronounced medullary rim sign. I was thinking his hematuria might be renal in orgin.
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Medullary rim is idiopathic
Medullary rim is idiopathic so not sure if this has anything to do with the hematuria. You can also run a coag as I have on occasion run into cogulopathies that manifest with hematuria. Any inflammatory sediment associated? sampling artifact?
No sediment, there was a very
No sediment, there was a very tiny stone present that I did not think was significant present in the left kidney.
Medullary rim is idiopathic
Medullary rim is idiopathic so not sure if this has anything to do with the hematuria. You can also run a coag as I have on occasion run into cogulopathies that manifest with hematuria. Any inflammatory sediment associated? sampling artifact?
No sediment, there was a very
No sediment, there was a very tiny stone present that I did not think was significant present in the left kidney.
How was the urine collected
How was the urine collected and is there an owner complaint of hematuria?
by catheter so that could
by catheter so that could explaing things. owner is not seeing blood
How was the urine collected
How was the urine collected and is there an owner complaint of hematuria?
by catheter so that could
by catheter so that could explaing things. owner is not seeing blood